Top News Stories with Tom and Ana (May 2, 2018)

by Tom & Ana // May 02, 2018 12:58 pm

Happy sunny Wednesday! People in the southern part of our country will never appreciate the sun as much as we do!

There’s a big project that the WSDOT is working on that could cause traffic problems in the short term but reduce congestion in the long term. They’re rebuilding the entire I-5/SR 16 interchange with lots of changes to the flow of traffic in the meantime. Full story

A day after Amazon announced it will add thousands of jobs in Vancouver, B.C., the company announced it will hire thousands more outside of Washington state. The company will add 2,000 jobs in Boston as it expands its tech hub. Those jobs will be in fields including machine learning, speech science, cloud computer, and robotics engineering. Full story

Multiple groups were cooperative as they crowded into downtown Seattle for May Day 2018 events, to march for workers’ rights and other causes. Yesterday’s gatherings around Westlake Center went smoothly, and were calmer than in previous years. Full story

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